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As for me and my little life, I’m going to keep trying my best.

Trying my best to stay open and humble, yet fierce and honest in my truth.

Doing my best to be myself.

To embrace my perfect concoction of “a little bit of both”.

Respectful of the rules that matter and a pain-in-the-ass rebel against those that cause unnecessary pain.

I’ll keep doing my best to take the middle road, no matter how hard that road may be to travel.

Because I know that polarities by their nature are not the problem.

They are the necessary ingredients to life.

Water and fire.

Day and night.

Birth and death.

Joy and sadness.

Hot and cold.

And yes, even left and right.

It is not wrong to have and hold opposites.

It is not dangerous to understand and respect both.

It is empowering and magical to stand witness to two extremes, to hold both potentials within you, and to birth something beautiful from their balance.

What’s dangerous is to treat them as enemies when their true purpose is to be cooperative, counter-balancing friends.

It is dangerous to deny when one has become too heavily weighted, or to hide your head in the sand when one extreme seeks to eradicate all outside its sphere.

But there is a simple, quiet, and beautiful kind of magic in remembering the good in both, even in times of imbalance.

So here in my little world I will make that simple magic by continuing to do my best.

I’ll continue doing my best to balance my water and fire.

To have a healthy relationship between my heart and my mind.

I’ll go on balancing my responsibility to the collective with my honoring and nurturing of self.

I will balance the humility enough to stay quiet with the full power of speaking up.

And I will, day by day, do my best to ground myself in this beautiful earth while also opening my wings and my mind to the sky.

I’ll keep seeing and understanding the need for both. And I will continue doing my best to balance my responsibility to call out the bullshit with my blessed, sovereign right to retreat into sacred stillness and personal peace.

I can only control me, so I will focus on balancing my own extremes, my own opposites, and speaking my own truths along the way.

As for me and my little life, I’ll just keep on trying my best. Because maybe that’s all any of us can ever do.

©️ 2025 Cristen Writes